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[ewt]

I'd really like to see this trilogy of films. I've heard about it from various people, watched a small amount during a class last year, want to see more. I wonder if the DVDs are available from the Trinity library.

What Gaelan said about generators from old box fans.

I would like to learn more electronics. I know very, very little and what I do know was learned in grade school and I forget it easily. I can just about keep voltage, wattage and amperage clear in my head. I know what an electromagnet is. I know a circuit has to be closed to work. I can wire a plug, just. I know, in a very rough way, how fuses and circuit breakers work, but had to have an RCD explained (and can't remember what the acronym stands for now) to me last night. Every time I want to do anything like the project above, though, I have to get someone else to help, or look everything up from scratch. I can't read a circuit diagram. I don't even have a soldering iron, and when I do use one it is messy. I always forget what transistors, capacitors, resistors, diodes do (um, diodes make the electricity only go one direction _I think_). I had an electronics kit when I was a child but all I did was make flashlights.

Who will teach me? Where should I start learning? I do not have much money to spend on this, so loan or donation of tools/books/materials would be great.

Are you self-employed? Discuss your experiences.

What work can you do from home/remotely? Brainstorm/discuss.

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[martling.livejournal.com]

If you're going to be busking for some of the time, I'd be happy to (a) sit and listen for a while, and (b) wander around Bath, since I don't think I've been there before, and I still have some Christmas shopping to do.

I could stay the night tomorrow, if that's helpful for timing (allows evening for film watching perhaps?) and okay with shevek.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

I'll ask when he's awake, and let you know sometime this evening...

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

He's awake, he says it's fine for you to stay over tomorrow night.

:))

Let me know when you have some idea of travel plans and I can meet you at the station and so on.

[martling.livejournal.com]

Only got to my parents' in the last half hour - train ran late out of Edinburgh, so I missed the tube and ended up on the sodding N18 ghetto-on-wheels.

So, er, if I get a decent few hours sleep now, I can get a 9:30am train from here and be in Bath at noon. Let me know if that suits you? I'll check this thread in the morning, or text me.

[martling.livejournal.com]

Bleurgh. Awake. Make that 1pm :-)

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Mid-afternoon would suit me a bit better as I only just got up. Will text you now to find out if you're on the train and I need to go into 'get dressed now' mode!